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Paying Privately for Adult Aspergers Assessment?

ice lolly

Hello all,

I am thinking of paying privately for an adult Aspergers assessment (for myself) so that I don't have to wait for my GP to refer me, and was wondering if anyone had any experience of doing this ...

Thanks!

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  • I've heard of that, longman.

    And to me it seems bizarre. However, I think it comes down to the health professionals being aware that there is so little help and support for adults on the spectrum and that if someone is somehow just 'muddling along', but has a depressive personality, it's better to tell them "don't worry, you're fine", than "you're Autistic, but don't expect any support, because you're not going to get any".

    Also, I think, longman, and probably you too Jon, would be described as 'sub-clinical' - i.e. yes, you are on the spectrum, but you've developed strategies that allow you to cope, and your situation in life is such that you don't, in some sense, 'have a problem' fitting in with society - even if that is only a surface appearance, and underneath you're really struggling.

    In short, if you don't 'appear to have a problem' then, for all intents and purposes, you don't 'have a problem'.

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  • I've heard of that, longman.

    And to me it seems bizarre. However, I think it comes down to the health professionals being aware that there is so little help and support for adults on the spectrum and that if someone is somehow just 'muddling along', but has a depressive personality, it's better to tell them "don't worry, you're fine", than "you're Autistic, but don't expect any support, because you're not going to get any".

    Also, I think, longman, and probably you too Jon, would be described as 'sub-clinical' - i.e. yes, you are on the spectrum, but you've developed strategies that allow you to cope, and your situation in life is such that you don't, in some sense, 'have a problem' fitting in with society - even if that is only a surface appearance, and underneath you're really struggling.

    In short, if you don't 'appear to have a problem' then, for all intents and purposes, you don't 'have a problem'.

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